INTERPLAY - JAM PIRATA

Mural  Painting with my fellow mates Davide Asker and Fabio Weik. Always a pleasure to paint with them...feels just like the early roaring days!

Illustration on Inside Mining Magazine!

mining illustration, carmine bellucci illustration, carmine belluci, asian illustration

I was asked by Boh!? Pub to create a custom sign for their event called Boh!? Circus. Work in progress sneak peek...

hi there! Yes, I'm still here…back from the summer break…well…not exactly a break. Many many things have happened in the previous months and I've been so busy looking after them all. Pretty intense summer "not-break". One of the most exciting news is that I'm moving to Padua, beautiful city in the North-East of Italy, just 20 minutes away from Venice…I think I may be spending many hours lost in the floating magic of the Venetian water.
I've been working on several projects and managed to to some personal artworks as well…mostly paintings…on all kinds of supports. I feel stronger and stronger the need (and urge) to have a physical approach to my works, mixing colors, handling the support, the brushes, let things/accidents happen and have a tactile feeling with what I'm doing, feel my thoughts in my hands…my dirty hands, not in an ethereal cloud or digital dimension.
Later on I will be posting some more stuff…in the meantime…let's start again!

Sneak peek at my recent paintings...
follow-up coming soon!

Last week I had the pleasure to paint in Sardinia @ Campidarte Creative Festival. Here you'll find a full story of this project. Thanks to the guys over @ Campidarte and my travel mate Samuel Fortunato with whom we shared great funny moments. See you soon guys! ...my arm is slowly recovering...
thanks to Clèr for the awesome snaps.

The most powerful army...the noblest...

Just received the roll!! This is an exciting project by my Vienna-based agent Caroline Seidler who brought together all her artists to work on this poster. Every artist chooses a letter (part of the whole message contained in the poster) and can draw/paint/work on it with his style. After that he is to ship the roll to another agency's artist. So, this is gonna be a travelling roll, I've just received it from the great Andre Sanchez all the way from Paris...time to leave an Italian sign...stay tuned for further updates!

legs close-up from a recent illo, full picture coming soon!

Painting session on found paper bakery bread bag. Italian bread is one of the most exquisite crafts we have here in Italy, just thought my "daily bread" could inspire "my daily art"...I'll keep you posted

snap of the latest stuff I'm working on...this one about social media...we all love to be followed, to feel less alone...1...2...3...16.7 million...

Happy Easter...flying high!

Like every year, spring in Milan is of course "Il Salone del Mobile". International Design visits Milan and where there's design, there's fun...and where there's fun, there's a drink!
Cheers!

Painting session...

Let's raise awareness, let's give children their smile back, let's be "heroes" and make a difference. Childhood is a time of happiness and bloom, early screenings can prevent cells from spreading and damaging the body or make treatment more effective, so that children can live their spring and flourish in full joy. We have done so much and we can do much more...

finally springtime...never enough!

People hugging one another...maybe just a dream...maybe one day...

Drapery...

Let's conclude this short a-bird-a-day blogging with this one. Maybe we have more in common with our feathered friends than we think, maybe something light, maybe our longing for the highest blue. Up on top is where they belong, feeling the free air, spreading their wings reaching for the day, where do you think we belong? Turning our heads to the sky, dreaming the far and the near, waiting for the next season to fly and feel the breeze...

Let's start the week with colors!

I apologize for the lack of birds, but I was just waiting for this special one to come to me...he appeared at last and he was most welcome!

Today I feel inspired...

Bird of the day! Well...he could really help most of us!

What's inside this?

Let's start the week with this one...

Today's bird!

For the next days I've decided I will be posting birdie birds daily.

Friday night working...

Been experimenting with typography...last day I had this one cut on a woodblock, the result is interesting and I kind of like the shadow of letters cast on the surface below...
I will be working on it more...

Marking Holocaust Memorial Day...just to remember the shameful atrocity, just to learn and not to stain our dignity again. When I think that human mankind/manMind can fall so low and deep in the belief of his own (apparently) high sense of righteousness, sometimes even justice, I just feel sick and so fragile...liable to fall. Remembering what we did it's remembering what we are and who we want to be, as individuals and part of the "whole". I think that what John Donne, many years ago, wrote in his meditations, fits very well this matter and should...make us meditate...

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

Truly honoured to start this brand new year with a great news. I have a new agent, in addition to my fantastic Australian one, to represent me. It's Caroline Seidler and I'm very stoked to be among her talented and skilful artists!

Season's Greetings to all! May your Christmas and New Year be magically colorful!